The Coming of the French Revolution
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The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre
Details what happened in France during the year 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. This book offers an introduction that provides a short intellectual biography of Georges Lefebvre and a critical appraisal of the book after the research and reassessment of three generations of historians.
"Simply the best introduction to the study of the French Revolution available anywhere"--Nation "A pleasure to read... Lefebvre sets forth clearly the many causes of that insurrection and explains the influences exerted by the various classes and factions--the nobles and the clergy, on the one side, and the bourgeoisie and the peasantry on the other."--New Yorker "Much more than a history of 1789... [A] synthesis, conveying a philosophy of the Revolution as a whole, such as could be written only by a seasoned scholar."--American Historical Review
Georges Lefebvre (1874-1959) was one of the major twentieth-century historians of the French Revolution. Timothy Tackett is Professor of History at University of California, Irvine. His previous books include "Becoming a Revolutionary" (Princeton).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691121888 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691121885 |
| Title | The Coming of the French Revolution |
| Author | Georges Lefebvre |
| Series | Princeton Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2005-08-07 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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